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Closing the AI Gap: Lauren Ingram on Why Women Can't Afford to Sit This One Out
Episode 14
Women are using AI about 25% less than men. Lauren Ingram is on a mission to close that gap before it sets.
We sit down with the founder of AI Girl Ga…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Calm Goes First: Dr Rosanna M on threat, drive and the soothe system motherhood forgets
Episode 13
Your brain didn't break when you became a mother. It got an upgrade.
Clinical psychologist Dr Rosanna M joins us on compassion-focused therapy and the…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Soft Is Not Weak:Gemma Folkard on The Postpartum Body, Redefining Ambition, and the Bounce-Back Myth
Episode 12
This episode is about the body. We spend a lot of time on this show on the neurological side of matrescence, but the physical transformation gets far…
4 months ago
When Nothing Goes to Plan: An Unplanned Caesarean, the Shame Spiral, and Retiring "Natural Birth"
Episode 11
Sensitivity note: this episode discusses birth trauma, emergency caesarean, and the emotional aftermath of a birth that didn't go to plan. If you're …
4 months, 1 week ago
The Maternity Advisor: A Welcome Step, a Missing Framework, and What Comes After the Hospital Door
Episode 10
Bianca recorded this episode two weeks after giving birth. On the same day, as it happens, that the UK appointed its first ever National Maternity Ad…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Day Three Drop: The Hormonal Crash No One Prepares You For, Day Seven Reporting Live
Episode 9
This is the episode about what happens when the greatest love of your life arrives in the same 72-hour window as the biggest hormonal crash your body…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Career Opportunity (Part 2): Portfolio Careers, Boring Businesses, and Betting on Yourself
Episode 8
Last episode we laid out the career penalty. The stats, the systemic failures, the cost of becoming a mother in a workplace that wasn't built for you…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Career Penalty (Part 1): Egg Counts, Bank Accounts, and a System That's Failing You
Episode 7
Bianca spent 15 years engineering her career around the possibility of becoming a mother. Getting to CMO level before she could even think about it. …
5 months ago
The Leave Myth: Planning, Surrendering, and What's Actually Coming
Episode 6
You’ve planned everything. The hires, the handover, the keeping-in-touch days. And still, somehow, nothing feels settled.
This episode goes inside the…
5 months, 1 week ago
Building the Village: Loneliness, Cost, and the Patchwork Nobody Prepares You For
Episode 5
Content note: this episode touches on birth anxiety and navigating pregnancy without a close support system nearby.
It takes a village to raise a chil…
5 months, 2 weeks ago